Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Program and Social Security Data
Ver�nica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito			     Replication Materials


1. Overview

This folder contains a codebook, six Stata datasets, and Stata .do files to replicate tables and figures in the paper.

Do files #0-5 run on confidential data. The confidential data files are not available publicly. However, we include these .do files for completeness. Stata .do file #6 anonymizes the data. The replication files include the anonymized data outputted by this program. Stata .do files #7-10 use the anonymized data and replicate the tables and figures shown in the paper.

Note that before running any .do files, you must change the main directory in 0.prepare0.do to the directory on your computer in which you are storing these replication files. Also, you may need to install some Stata packages for programs to run properly (e.g. "ivreg2", "xtivreg2", "ranktest", and "rd").



2 Description of Individual Files Used to Replicate Tables and Figures

"7.table1.do"
Uses dataset "peso4_anonymized.dta" to create output shown in Table 1

"8.regressions.do"
Uses "peso4_anonymized.dta" to create output shown in Tables 2-4 and Tables A2-A6. This program also produces Figure A5 in the section called "Last column of Table A3" (the output is "RD_graph.gph"). This section also produces the last column of Table A3; this regression is run separately from the rest of Table A3.
 
"9.Table5.do"
Uses "fert_anonymized.dta" to create the output shown in Table 5

"10.Figure1.do" 
Creates Figure 1.

"10.Figure2.do"
Creates Figure 2.

"10.FigureA1.do"
Creates Figure A1

"10.FigureA3.do"
Creates Figure A3

Figure A4 is created by "graph_prepost.do"

Figure A6 is created by "graph_LBW_allscore.do"

"10.FigureA7.do"
Creates Figure A7

Figure A8 is created by "graph_baselinecov.do". The output is "gr_baseline_cov1.png", gr_baseline_cov1.png", and "gr_baseline_cov1.png".

"10.FigureA9.do"
Creates Figure A9
